Automobile window awning



Jan. 21, 1930. E. L. BEHRMAN ET AL AUTOMOBILE WINDOW AWNING Fileqocfl 31. 1928 l izvezziors:

Patented Jan. 21, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE EMIL Ir. BEHRMAN, OF-BLOOMING-TON, AND ARTHUR E. GOMES, F PEORIA, ILLINOIS AUTOMOBILE WINDOW AWNING Application filed October 31, 1928.

to provide such a device which will be retained in position in the window frame by the friction: of its spring pressed blocks on the window frame; to provide in such a device such a combination of elements that the awni10 ing may be swung about the common axis of said blocks from ahorizontal or near horizontal position extending outside of' the car to a horizontal position or position of inclination above horizontal inside of the car with- 1 out disturbing the mounting of said awning in the window frame in the slightest degree; toprovide a construction having only a cylindrical rod or equivalent extending across the a window frame with the friction blocks lying in anaxial direction within the outline of said rod, so as not to ofier any obstruction above or below the same to the snug fitting of the awning against the top of the window frame or to the raising of the window glass whereby the awning may fit snug against r130 vide a simple frictional means for holding the awning at any angle to which it may be moved inside or outside of the automobile; to provide a simple construction quickly separable to permit the frame to be removed from the fabric cover so that the latter maybe Washed or reversed; to provide an awning frame having contact with the window frame only at points axially in line with, and within or substantially within, the outline of the 4 upper bar of the frame; and to provide a novel cover, all as hereinafter more'particularly set forth, described and claimed.

In this application we show and describe onlythe preferred embodimentof'our inven- 4 tion simply by way of illustration of the practice of our invention as by law required. However, we recognize that our invention is capable of other and different embodiments and that the various details thereof maybe flit modified in various way all without departing Serial No. 316,133.

from our said invention; therefore, the drawings and description herein are to be considered as merely illustrative and not as eXc1usive. p

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 represents a perspective view of an awning embodying our invention as applied to an automobile;

Figure 2, a longitudinal sectional view of the awning on line 22 of Fig. 4, the Wire rod or frame being shown in elevation;

Figure 3, an enlarged detail central longitudinal sectional View, broken away, of one endportion of the awning as mounted in a window frame;

Figure 4, a sectional View on the line 4-4: of Fig. 3;

Figure 5, a view similar to Fig. 4: only with the awning and window glass broken away, showing the awning turned inside of the car and up toward the roof thereof out of the way and the glassbeing snug up against the fabric covered roll; and t Figure 6, a fragmentary detail outer end elevation of one end portionof the U-shaped frame member or Wire rodw5, showing the frictional element 13 or roughened frictional construction of the outer faces of the eyes 11 of member 5, V

Referring now in detail to the drawings, A

indicates an automobile body having glass windows B sliding in usual channels or grooves G of their respective usual frames D.

The awning comprises a closed sack or tubular textile fabricimember 1 preferably made from a single piece of fabric folded and having its sides2 and lower edge 3 sewed together, and if desired the lower edge may be double seamed to secure thereto a decorative tassel fringe E. as shown in Figure i, and the upper corners of the completed tubular fabric cover or awning member 1 are cut out, as at 4, to permit the insertion of the wire rodor frame member 5 and the tubular rod or pole member 6.

A, helical spring 7 is disposed in said tubular rodor pole 6 between two opposed cylin- 'drical blocks 8 which make a freely sliding fit in said member 6 and normally extend slightly beyond tl'reir respective ends thereof,

as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, and may be shoved into said tubular rod or pole member 6 until their outer ends respectively are flush with the respective ends of said member 6 during the insertion or removal of the awning in or from the window frame.

referably the awning with its frame will be made in various lengths as may be necessary to fit different widths of automobile windows.

The relative lengths of the blocks 8 is immaterial so long as their combined length is such that their opposed ends will be in contact with, and between them will place, the spring 7 under heavy compression as mounted in a window frame of a proper width for which the particular awning is intended, the action of the spring as thus compressed forcing the blocks 8 and parts associated therewith in opposite directions into tight friction al contact with the window frame of such degree as to prevent the tubular rod or pole member 6 from moving, under the influence or vibration or jaw, endwise of the vertical channels or grooves C of the window frame in which the awning is mounted.

The outer end portions of said blocks 8 are centrally axially bored as at 9 to receive the relatively long fulcrum or pivot pins 10 extending through the corresponding end eyes 11 of the elongated U-shaped frame or wire rod member 5.

Said pins have annular stop collars 12 en-- gaging against the roughened outer face portions 13, which may be serrated washers welded to the outer faces of eyes 11. Extending axially outward from the collars 12 respectively are flat axially extending friction blocks or heads 14 preferably integral with collars 12 preferably not exceeding in width the diameter of said tubular rod or pole member 6 but preferably being of a width equal to such diameter, and preferably corresponding in thickness to the glass B so as to make a nice fit in the grooves C of the window frames D. Preferably the pins 10 with their collars 12 and friction blocks or heads 14 respectively are all integral, but this is not essential and they may be constructed otherwise in any suitable manner. I

It is not essential that the outer roughened portions 13 shall be distinct from the outer aces ofthe eyes 11 or .welded thereto, it being sufiicient if there are friction means interposed between the respective eyes 11 and cooperating collars 12 so that as they are forced toward each other there will be a frictional engagement preventing the free independent rotary movement of the eyes 11 under the influence of gravity, vibration and jar acting on the awning l and frame 5 extending radially from the tubular rod or pole member 6. To assemble, one end of the frame member 5 is introduced in one of the openings 4 between the two layers of fabric and shoved through the tubular awning member 1 until said eye 11 thereof protrudes through the other opening 4, and the other eye 11 of said frame member protrudes through the first mentioned opening 4. The tubular rod or pole member 6 is then inserted in one of the openings 4 and shoved through the tubular awning member 1 until it protrudes through the other opening 4. If the blocks 8 with the intervening helical spring 7 are not already in tubular rod or pole member 6 they are next inserted therein in the order above mentioned, with their axially bored ends of blocks 8 presented outward. The blocks 8 are then shoved toward each other, compressing spring 7 between them, and fitted between the eyes 11 of wire frame member 5 with the opening in each eye 11 in registry with the corresponding axial bore in the respective cooperating blocks 8, when the respective pins 10 are inserted through the respective eyes 11 into the respective bores 9 of the respective blocks 8 until the respective collars;12 of said pins bear against the respective roughened frictional portions 13 of said eyes 11, when the awning is ready for application, in obvious manner, to an automobile window frame. To remove the frame members to permit washing or reversal of the awning member or cover 1, the parts are removed in the reverse of the order above mentioned. The said member 1 may be turned end for end and the parts reinserted as first described, or the cover member 1 may be washed and dried and the frame elements reinserted as above described.

Any suitable material may be used for any part and any part may be constructed in any suitable manner and it is not essential that parts shown now as integral shall be integral, nor is it essential that they shall not be adjustable, but as to these points we hold ourselves free to avail ourselves of known suitable constructions in this general field so far as applicable to an article of this nature.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a window awning, a demountable frame comprising an elongated U-shaped frame member having eyes at its ends, in combination with a supporting pole member comprising a tubular member, a pair of blocks slidably fitting in said tubular member, a resilient element interposed in said tubular member between the ends of said blocks and acting to force said blocks in opposite directions, the outer ends of said blocks being axially bored and respectively fitting against the inner faces of the respective eyes, and pins respectively extending through the respective eyes and into the axial bores of the respective blocks, said eyes being formed with an outer roughened frictional face, and

said pins being formed with relatively immovable radially extending faces respectively to be engaged by the respective outer faces of said eyes forced into binding frictional engagement With said radial faces by said resilient element, and said pins being provided With axially extending means beyond said enlargements respectively for engaging the respective sides of a Window frame.

2. In a Window awning, a frame comprising an elongated U-shaped member having eyes at its ends, in combination With a sup porting pole member, said pole member comprising a tubular member, a pair of blocks slidably mounted in said tubular member,

each said block having its outer end centrally'axially bored, a spring interposed between the adjacent opposed ends of said blocks and tending to force said blocks apart, and pins respectively extending through the respective eyes of said U-shaped member into the bores of the respective blocks and respectively formed With a radially extending i i portion adapted to engage the outer portion of the corresponding eyes respectively and provided respectively beyond saidradial enlargement with flattened axially extending portions adapted to fit in the cooperating 3Q grooves in the respective sides of a Window frame, and to be held in firm frictional con tact therein by the action of said spring.

3. In a Window awning, a frame comprising a supporting pole member constituting the sole means of support for said frame, said pole member comprising a tubular member, a spring disposed in said tubular memher, and a pair of pins respectively extending into the ends of said tubular member and adapted to move axially thereof and forced away from each other by said spring, each said pin having an extreme outer end flattened portion adapted to fit in a groove of the corresponding side of a Window frame and to be held in firm frictional contact with a Wall of said groove by said spring, the opposed walls of the respective grooves preventing the turning of the respective pins, and the diameter of said tubular member being equal to the greatest dimension of each of said pins taken in a plane perpendicular tothe axis of said tubular member.

In testimony whereof, We have signed our names to this specification at Peoria, Illinois, this 23d day of October, 1928.

EMIL L. BEHRMAN. ARTHUR E. GOMES.

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